1186. Suffix ka is of very common use in secondary derivation

क ka. The suffix क ka is of very common use in secondary derivation (below, 1222); whether it is directly added to roots is almost questionable: at any rate, extremely few primary derivatives are made with it.

a. The words which have most distinctly the aspect of being made from roots are puṣka-, -meka (√mifix), yaska n. pr., çúṣkadry, çlóka (√çruhear} noise, report, etc., and -sphākateeming; and stúkāflake and stokádrop seem to belong together to a root stu; rākā́ f., n. pr., may be added.

b. But ka enters, in its value as secondary, into the composition of certain suffixes reckoned as primary: see aka and uka (above, 1180, 1181).

c. A few words in which ika and īka seem added to a root, though they are really of a kindred formation with the preceding, may be most conveniently noticed here: thus, vṛ́çcika(√vraçc) scorpion;ánīka (?) face, dṛ́çīkaaspect, dṛ́bhīka n. pr., mṛḍīkágrace, vṛdhīká increaser, ā́çarīka and víçarīkagripes, -ṛjīkabeaming, ṛṣīka; ṛkṣī́kā; and, from reduplicated root, parpharī́kascattering (?). Compare secondary suffix ka (below, 1222).